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Albert Balink was born on 3 August, 1906 in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands, is a Dutch journalist and filmmaker (1906–1976). Discover Albert Balink's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 69 years old?

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Occupation Journalist, filmmaker
Age 69 years old
Zodiac Sign Leo
Born 3 August 1906
Birthday 3 August
Birthplace 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
Date of death 8 February, 1976
Died Place Pensacola, Florida, United States
Nationality Indonesia

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1906

Albert Balink (3 August 1906 – 8 February 1976) was a Dutch journalist and filmmaker who contributed to early Indonesian cinema.

Born in the Netherlands, he began a career in film journalism in the Dutch East Indies.

1920

In the 1920s and early 1930s he was a reporter with De Locomotief, a newspaper based in Semarang, Dutch East Indies, and the Soematra Post, based in Medan.

He wrote extensively about film while working at these papers.

1930

A self-taught filmmaker, in the mid-1930s, he released a documentary and two feature films, before immigrating to the United States and resuming his journalistic career.

Balink was born in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.

1934

In 1934, Balink established the Java Pacific Film production company with the Wong brothers, headquartered in an old Bandoeng tapioca flour factory.

Inexperienced with film, Balink had attained only theoretical knowledge gained from self-instruction.

The company's first production was a documentary film, De Merapi Dreigt (Mount Merapi Looms), released in 1934.

Advertised as the first documentary film with sound in the Dutch East Indies, it was a critical success.

However, Balink's main interest lay in feature films, intending to reach an upper-class audience in contrast to the feature films of The Teng Chun, traditionally based on Chinese mythology or martial arts, and targeted at lower-class audiences, generally ethnic Chinese.

1936

The studio, working with director Mannus Franken, then produced Pareh (Rice; 1936), an ethnographic film considered a forerunner to the Indonesia Indah films.

Balink had brought Franken to the country to ensure the film's quality.

As well as writing the screenplay, Franken co-directed and co-produced the film with Balink, who worked to secure funding from various sponsors and was in charge of casting, searching the country extensively for appropriate actors.

Ultimately the film was a flop and bankrupted the company, including Balink, having cost 75,000 gulden to produce.

Despite this, it was well received in the Netherlands.

Balink established renewed financial backing to found the Dutch Indies Film Syndicate (Algemeen Nederlandsch Indisch Filmsyndicaat, or ANIF), which produced its first newsreel on 22 December 1936, featuring the Gambir Market, and festivities at the palace of the Governor-General, including the inauguration of the last Dutch East Indies Governor-General, Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer.

1937

In 1937, Balink directed Terang Boelan (Full Moon), described as the first full-length Indonesian film in Malay.

The story, following a young couple who have not received their parents' blessings, was written by the reporter Saeroen.

1938

In March 1938 Balink immigrated to the United States, became a citizen, and worked as a correspondent for Dutch daily newspaper, de Volkskrant.

1940

The 1940 United States Census indicates that he was living in Queens, New York, with his wife, Lydia.

From New Jersey and twelve years his junior, Lydia worked with Balink as his secretary.

1948

In 1948, he published a socioeconomic study of the Caribbean, My Paradise is Hell.

1950

In the 1950s he founded and edited a magazine, The Knickerbocker, a publication aimed at Dutch Americans.

The magazine was instrumental in allowing Dutch baseball player, Han Urbanus to train with the New York Giants.

Urbanus used this experience to further develop baseball in the Netherlands.

Also in the 1950s, Balink chaired the committee for the William the Silent Award for Journalism.

1953

Terang Boelan proved to be the most commercially successful Indonesian production until the 1953 film, Krisis (Crisis), released after the country's independence.

Despite his success, the studio's backers disapproved of Balink's interest in feature films.

He left the country for the United States, attempting a career as a Hollywood director, which was unsuccessful.

In early 1953 he served as executive of Holland Flood Relief Inc., which helped coordinate relief efforts during the North Sea flood of 1953.

Balink was an active amateur tennis player.

1976

Albert Balink died in Pensacola, Florida, on 8 February 1976.

1991

Reviewing early Indonesian cinema, in 1991 the American visual anthropologist Karl G. Heider wrote that Pareh and Terang Boelan were the two most important cinematic works from the Dutch East Indies during the 1930s.